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...works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses. The department's scientists are breeding new, higher-yielding varieties of wheat; they are trying to devise ways of making grain crops and grasses add nitrogen to the soil instead of subtracting it; they are combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then releasing them in the fields to compete with other males for the available females. The U.S., says an Agriculture Department publication, is "in the foothills of technical progress in agriculture...
...fingerprinting a Siamese twin. If Enter Laughing is a tiny cut above the breed, it is because Playwright Stein, who adapted his comedy from the autobiographical novel of TV Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This is not to suggest that Enter Laughing is a social document, but merely that its solid...
Tilling the soil...
...week course (tuition: $6) in "The Exciting World of Plants and Animals." For 75 minutes, they tackled all kinds of questions: What is a reptile? What does "coldblooded" mean? Flaunting new words from habitat to hibernate, the kids-second, third and fourth graders -will soon take up mammals, vertebrates, soil and plant propagation, subjects that most of them meet only vaguely in their daytime studies. At another church, a Douglas Aircraft engineer taught fifth to seventh graders Newton's laws, to launch a course in space and rocketry. Also available for grade schoolers: physics, biology, Spanish and French...
...Committee on Biology and Medicine, if the U.S. wishes to survive it will need shelters for birds, animals, and plants, as well as for people. After the battle, according to John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful...